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the effect of post-crisis policies has been to undermine unemployment security, the paid value of work, and job-creating investment, while pushing a moralistic rhetoric that criticises young people for failing to get a job and old people for keeping one.

The weakened ties between voters, parties, and institutions aren’t just an Italian phenomenon. Political scientists such as Peter Mair have spoken of the historic decline of mass parties across the West in recent decades